The Industrial Development of Birmingham and the Black Country, 1860-1927

bedstead began Bilston Birmingham and District Birmingham Industries Black Country blast-furnaces branch brass trade brassfoundry British buttons Census of England centre century chief Children's Employment Commission coal competition concerned Coventry Cuttings on Birmingham cycle Darlaston decline demand depression domestic worker Dudley edge-tool employed Employment Commission 1862 engaged engineering England and Wales existed export F. W. Hackwood finished firms foreign foundries furnaces growth gun trade hardware hollow-ware Ibid important increased Inspectors of Factories iron trade jewellery Kingswinford labour lock machine machinery makers manu manufacture metal methods Midland mining motor nail neighbourhood Newspaper Cuttings Oldbury older output papier-mâché period pig-iron production prosperity puddling furnaces raw materials Redditch saddlery saddlery and harness Smethwick South Staffordshire steel Stourbridge supply Timmins tinplate Tipton tons town tubes Walsall wares Warwickshire Wednesbury West Bromwich West Midlands Willenhall wire Wolverhampton Worcestershire workers Workshops wrought-iron